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Black Religion Essay Response-Black Theology According to Cone, Black theology is representative of the “historical fight for justice.” Black theology cannot be separated from power and politics. Black theology is what gave Black people the motivation to fight for their future and go against society, politics, and discrimination. “The term ‘Black Theology’ was created in this social and religious context. It was initially understood as the theological imagination in the struggle of freedom independently of white theologians” (570). Cone defines Black Theology as a “theology of black liberation”(571). Black Theology is said to have been “born in the context of the black community as black people were attempting to make sense out of their struggle from freedom”(571). Cone says, “Black theology can be found in our songs, prayers and sermons…it is the black vision of truth, preeminently the certainty that we were created not for slavery but for freedom. It began when white theology degraded black people and it gave them the hope to move on from this. In addition to theological issues, Black Theology provided freedom from white oppressors. Cone says “We felt the need to explain ourselves and to be understood black, theology, community, people, freedom, faith, cone, liberation, white, go, slavery, oppressed, concerned, churches, world, whole, vision, understood, today, theological, struggle, society, social, says, politics, point, own, needs, must, liberate, justice, itself, historical, helped, god